Abstract

General Election decided the government representation process. The same politic and democracy justice by key argument, to increase woman representation. Female is the majority of Indonesia citizens who also majority voters in General election, it could be seen from Bulungan Regional General Election Committee where female voters were 664.335 or 50.88%. But there could be seen that in all political institution, woman always became minority or marginal and
their representation as low. The effect of low representation in decision making center was no issue which most concerned by female in political debate.
Minimum limit of woman amount in legislative should be done, without 30% quota, political party wouldn’t be serious in handling woman representation. In this case, their existence in legislative institution able to bring woman aspiration more important than their quantity. 30%
quota existence in General Election Law came from Indonesian woman will to get rights and gender fairness in all aspects of life, whether in family, society, and country. Also woman expectation to be part of public policy taking.
According to above background, the research has interest to discuss how large woman existence into parliament in quota fulfillment. To get knowledge from complete result, the study would be done in woman legislative candidate failure in 2009 General Election at Bulungan Residence East Kalimantan Province. From background and problems stated above, the research aimed to find out how large failure level in Bulungan Residence in quota fulfillment applied by Rule No.10 / 2008 about General Election, Member of House of Representative, Regional Representative, and Regional House of Representative.
The research used qualitative approach by doing description and reveal conditions which happened according to facts and tried to find way out. The purpose was making description or systematical figure about facts, character and relation with phenomena existed. Data collection was done through observation, interview, and documentation.
According to research done, there found conclusion that woman representative electability in Bulungan Residence East Kalimantan didn’t able to fulfill 30% quota just as stated in Rule No.10 / 2008 about General Election, Member of House of Representative, Regional Representative, and Regional House of Representative. Electability of woman representative in the residence was so low, there was only four people as representative of Bulungan residence to
get through into regional representative or House of Representative. Lack of optimiziion of woman representative candidate, the voter distrust and society culture made the electability was low with minimum vote compared than male representative candidate.